Pillow-sham holder.



W. U. STYLES. PILLOW SHAM HOLDER.

APPLIQATION FILED OUT. 7, 1911.

Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

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WILLIAM C. STYLES, 01? BOWDON, GEORGIA;

PILLOW-SI-IAM HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2,1912.

Application filed October 7, 1911. Serial No. 653,430.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. STYLES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bowdon, county of Carroll, and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pillow-Sham Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pillow sham holders. p The present invention has for its object the provision of a simple, neat,light, strong and durable pillow sham holder of novel construction which can be applied to the bed without injury thereto and will be adapted to hold the pillow shams in raised position out of the way when the bed is occupied, being provided with new means to accomplish this purpose, and which will hold the shams neatly over the pillows at other times, the construction being such that the holder will be inconspicuous.

The holder is preferably constructed of wire or light rods and while I have shown it in the accompanying drawing as being used on a wooden bedstead, I do not restrict it to such application, as it is just as well adapted for use on metal bedsteads.

The invention is set forth fully hereinafter and the novel features thereof are recited in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings :--Figure '1 is a perspective of the holder applied to the headboard of a bedstead, the pillow shams and pillows being shown in dotted lines and the shams lowered; Fig. 2, a similar view showing the holder raised and the pillow shams folded; and Fig. 3, a detail cross section through the headboard, showing the device for securing the holder on the headboard and for locking the holder and shams in raised position.

The headboard of an ordinary bedstead is shown at 1 and the pillows of the bed at 2.

made to conform to the standard widths The holder consists of a clamping frame 3, a folding or hinged frame 4, a latch or hook 5 on said folding frame and two wing nuts or clamping devices 6.

The clamping frame 3 is made of stout wire vor light rods having a part which extends across the head of the bed and screw-threaded arms 7 arranged at right angles thereto, the distance between the arms being slightly greater than the width of the bed headboard 1, and this in turn is determined by the size in which the holder is form of three sides of a rectangle and it has coiled parts 8 which encircle the clamping frame 3, preferably inside of the posts of the headboard, permitting the frame 4 to be readily swung upwardly, as shown in Fig. 2, or allowed to remain in lowered position, as indicated in Fig. 1. The frame 4 is of stout wire or light rods and it is provided with one or more latches or hooks 5 (Fig. 3) formed by a laterally extending part 5*, a part 5 which is disposed substantially at right-angles to the plane of the folding frame 4 and a hook 5 which may be snapped into engagement with one of the arms 7. One of these latches is sufiic'ient, but one may be employed at each end of the frame 4 if preferred.

The respective frames 3 and 4 may be of more or less resilient material. If the coiled hinges 8 are disposed inwardly from the posts of the headboard 1, they do not contact with the headboard, but if they bear against it, any defacement is very slight.

The pillow shams 9 are pinned or suitably secured to the frame 3 at their upper edges and the frame 4 is disposed back of them or between them and the pillows so that when these shams are down, as indicated in Fig. 1, the entire holder is covered. Then in that position, the latch 5 extends forwardly, as shown in Fig. 1, but when the shams are raised to permit the pillows to be used, the latch 5 is grasped and used as a handle in turning the frame 4 on the frame 3 as a hinge or pivot and the hook 5 engaged with the arm 7, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, whereupon the frame 4 folds the shams and disposes them as shown in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a pillow sham holder, the combination with a clamping frame having arms adapted to extend rearwardly when in position on a bed headboard, of releasable clamping devices on the arms adapted to engage the rear of the headboard, apillow sham holding frame having parts loosely coiled about the clamping frame aforesaid so that said pillow sham frame may be raised or lowered, and a securing device carried by the pillow sham holding frame and adapted to engage one of the arms of the clamping frame to hold the pillow sham frame in raised position.

2. In a pillow sham holder, the combination with a clamping frame having arms adapted to extend rearwardly when in position on a bed headboard, of releasable clamping devices on the arms adapted to engage the rear of the headboard, a pillow larly disposed latch having a hook which is adapted to be engaged with an arm of the clamping frame to hold the pillow sham frame in raised position. In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WM. 0. STYLES.

\Vitnesses G. R. Coon, S. G. SEWELL.

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